An MIT team has discovered the most complicated knot ever seen in a protein, and they believe it may be linked to the protein's function as a rescue agent for proteins marked for destruction. An MIT ...

Researchers have been making impressive progress lately in efforts to untangle the mysteries of knotted proteins. Three independent surveys have identified the same enzyme as having the most complex ...

Theoretical physicists put Google's artificial intelligence AlphaFold to the test and find the most complex protein knots so far. Theoretical physicists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have put ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

Researchers have tied strings of molecules into a complicated knot whose strands cross one another nine times — an unprecedented feat. In nature, a DNA molecule often takes the form of one large knot ...